Centre directors

• Ingrid Maria Hanken (2014-2015)
• Jon Helge Sætre (2016-2021)
• Ellen M. Stabell (2021-2023)
• Deputy director: Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (2018-2023)

Student partners

• Guro Utne Salvesen and Guoste Tamulynaite (2018-2020)
• Susanna Solsrud and Ole Martin Solberg (2020-2022)
• Fride Nøstdahl Hjelle and Sigmund Scheldrum Toppe (2022-2023)

Advisors

• Aslaug Louise Slette (2014-2018)
• Ellen Mikalsen Stabell (2017-2021)
• Ane Hagness Kiran (2020-2023)
• Therese Aune (2021-2023)
• Sigrun Sæbø Åland (2022-2023).

Ph.D research fellows and post.docs

• Veronica Ski-Berg (2023). Pressures to Change. Institutional Politics in Higher Music Education.
• Damla Tahirbegi (ongoing). Examining the Role of Socially Shared Regulation of Learning and Emotions in a Chamber Music Rehearsal.
• Torbjørn Eftestøl (2023). A Differential Play of Forces. Transcendental Empiricism and Music.
• Tanja Orning (post.doc). På vei mot en ny utøverrolle.

International conferences

• The Protean Musician (2017)
• LATIMPE platform - Becoming Musicians. Student Involvement and Teacher Collaboration in Higher Music Education (2018)
• LATIMPE Platform – Students as Researching Artists. Music Technology and Musicianship. (2020)
• Musicians and performing artists’ health and performance MHPC22 (2022).
• Connection, collaboration and co-creation. Ways Forward for Higher Music Education (2023)

National and Scandinavian Seminars

• In Sync? Music teaching and learning in higher music education (2016) – University of Agder
• Entrepreneurship in Music – Between Artistic Autonomy and Economic Reality (2017) – Oslo
• New Learning Strategies in Higher Music Education [Nye læringsstrategier i høyere musikkutdanning] (2017) – Griegakademiet v/ Universitetet i Bergen
• Connections – Seminar about Interdisciplinary Interaction in Music [Forbindelser – seminar om musikkfaglig interaksjon] (2019) – Universitetet i Stavanger
• Artistic Research And Higher Music Education [Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid og høyere musikkutdanning] (2020) - UiT Norges arktiske universitet (digitalt)
• Contemporary music education [Samtidens musikkutdanning] (2022) – NTNU (digitalt)

Student-led conferences

• Musician and the Psyche [Musikeren og Psyken] 2020.
• The Music Student Conference 2020 – What is Success?
• The Music Student Conference 2022 – What the f... do we do now?
• The Music Student Conference 2023 – Who decides?

CEMPE Talks and STUDENT Talks

CEMPE Talks was a discussion forum, a dedicated space for exploring current topics in music education, cultural life and society. STUDENT Talks was established as a separate discussion forum for students at the Norwegian Academy of Music, led by the student partners in CEMPE.

Since 2019 CEMPE arranged 12 CEMPE Talks and 17 STUDENT Talks.

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Publications

• 150 paper presentations at national and international conferences
• 70 articles published - many of them in peer-reviewed journals
• 3 publications on projects in the first period, documenting staff and students' experiences:
  • Learning together (2015) edited by Ingrid Maria Hanken.
  • Instrumental group tuition at conservatoire level (2015) by Bjørg J. Bjøntegaard.
  • Teaching about practicing (2015) edited by Harald Jørgensen.
• 1 anthology: Becoming musicians. Student involvement and teacher collaboration in higher music education (2019). Anthology edited by Stefan Gies and Jon Helge Sætre
• 2 special issues: Journal of Music, Technology & Education, Volume 13, Issue 2-3. Special issue on digital tools in higher music education. Edited by Jon Helge Sætre and Luc Nijs.
• 4 Magazines
  • CEMPE Magazine 18-19
  • CEMPE Magazine 19-20
  • CEMPE Magazine 20-21
  • CEMPE Magazine 2023